Help decipher Spotify for Creators vs Apple Podcast Connect analytics?
Hello! I'm 6 months into my (weekly) podcast, and I've been starting to look at analytics, and have run into a point of confusion that I expect someone here can decipher in a nanosecond for me.
I host via Spotify for Creators. It feeds Apple Podcast, and I have a Apple Podcast Connect account. (It also shows up on places like Pocket Casts, Castbox, etc. but I'm not looking at those in detail)
If I look at March data on Spotify for Creators:
"On spotify": 78 plays
"All platforms" - Streams and Downloads: 257 (from exported daily numbers)
Heading to Apple Podcast Connect for the same time frame:
Apple: 348 plays
Now, I know that "Streams and Downloads" is not the same thing as "Plays", but what would you recommend is the best way to reconcile the notion that the Apple numbers are higher than the "all platforms" numbers when spotify is the host? Or are they (no pun intended) apples and oranges, and I should be combining, not subtracting numbers to get an idea of what's going on?
(I'm also streaming on YouTube, but that is separate from all of these numbers)
I appreciate anyone's expertise here to help me out!